They're trying to meme South America in so they can pretend to be spicy
:jokerfied: WHY DOES RUSSIA HAVE 10 MORE FREEDOM POINTS THAN CHINA :joker-troll:
THE CHAIR OF THIS GROUP WAS THE SECRETARY OF THE FUCKING TERM 2 DUBYA DHS HOLY SHIT I'M WRITING A STRONGLY-WORDED EMAIL
Primary funding for Freedom House's programs comes in the form of grants from USAID and U.S. State Department
No, freedom house is major fed shit. They had some incredible takes during the Bolivian coup regime, including total freedoms going up bc of business restrictions loosening
PALESTINE LITERALLY DOESNT EXIST YOU CAN HOVER OVER IT BUT ITS JUST A BLACK HOLE
Russia is white
NOT ACCORDING TO THE TOOTHBRUSH MOUSTACHED AUSTRIAN MEME MAN
Ugh, I hate P2W schemes. Sure you get some crappy 3rd tier country like the US for free, but if you want China you gotta pay for it.
I had similar essays in college and always just deboonked them and pissed the professors off but as long as you follow the syllabus they cant really fail you for wrongthink
prompt is a bit tight for deboonking
Pick a case study of a post-colonial country. Using Freedom House, evaluate its democratization progress or lack thereof. Discuss the main cause(s) of this.
No, no, you've got an out. The last sentence is ambiguous. It could refer to how democratic the state is, or it could refer to the freedom houses methodology.
"This state has a democratization progress of 56 because Freedom House is funded by murderous Neoliberal reactionary scum"
One of the things about this place that makes me genuinely proud is the quality and ubiquity of communist rules-lawyering in response to bad faith neoliberal drivel. They don't mind mass death, but point out their charts suck and they go wild.
They might shoot us all but we're not going to let the bastards win on points.
Very true, deboonk their entire shitty freedumbz map by going over how their electoral system is fairer and more transparent than the US's
Exactly. All she has to do is evaluate why a country has or has not not scored highly on the Freedom House definitions of democratisation.
Good opportunity to go through the criteria and assess why scoring highly in those metrics might not be advantageous for a nation’s development or autonomy. Especially when the criteria amount to ‘preservation of control over one’s own media and markets’.
I notice they don't say your analysis has to agree with the graph, you could easily write about the horrible history of say, free smol bean Taiwan
The foundation for freedom™ was laid when the Guomindang, with US support, democratically massacred the opposition on the island
Do South Africa but immediately shit on Thabo Mbeki for being a neoliberal austerity politics Oxford educated fool responsible for shit like rolling electricity blackouts because he skimped on maintenance to make line go up, and also denied the existence of AIDS. Laid groundwork for Zuma corruption. Use this to illustrate the bullshit that is the freedom index. Like are people living in shacks and 30% unemployment really "free"?. I don't feel very free. Would much rather live in Cuba.
You could pick a country with a high score and take it apart. Like "ah yes freedom house is right that this state is democratic, as we can see with Brazil's us backed torture regime"
Are scoring all of Cuba based just on Guantanamo?
Fr though, this is why so many Americans "just know" Cuba isn't a free country and won't be convinced otherwise. All their lives they're hit with little things like - always just assuming Cuba isn't free because "it's communist" and terminating all thought from there.
In communist North Vuvuzela students are required to regurgitate regime propaganda
Fucked. Mexico and India both only partly free? Is that because of their current leaders? Did they vote themselves out of being free?
Also I know you can't answer but what school do you go to lmfao
Mexico and India both only partly free? Is that because of their current leaders? Did they vote themselves out of being free?
Mexico and India are both big potentially rival countries that can escape the US umbrella, so they can never be free.
Only tiny ultra-balkanized controllable countries can attain the honorific of being "free".
That's about what I imagined could be the case. But then there's fucking Brazil as free lol. I suppose they've been pretty firmly under the US' thumb for awhile, though I'm sure they'll update the map if Lula gets back in power
Brazil is free because the USA installed a fascist dictatorship there wich for decades mass slaugthered anyone who was even remotely left wing. Thats what real democratic liberalism is.
I'm not familiar with Mongolia's political economy, anyone know why it's the only free country in Asia besides the more well known US clients? Seems odd to me at first blush
:shrug-outta-hecks: they've had more than one/two presidents since the 90s and haven't made an enemy of the yankees?
I know I was like "The fuck is going on in Mongolia? Do they have a kakistarchic Oligarchy like the US?"
Because they're on good terms with the US and probably make cheap products for the US or something.
because their wrestlers are free to be shipped off to japan to become the best sumo wrestlers of all time
:galaxy-brain: me summoning everything i remember from my special interest when i was 13
In GENERAL, Mongolia views China as a threat to its sovereignty due to their massively disparate GDPs and populations and has generally warmer relations with the United States as a form of protecting its sovereignty from China
The map is accurate when you realise they mean freedom for capital and not for people.
EDIT: Nah still some weird ones even for that lol
This map is outdated. The Solomon Islands are obviously no longer free since signing a military pact with China!
Edit: French Guiana is... grey????
Under French rule the very concepts of free and unfree ceases to have any meaning.
ooh! but maybe @WhyEssEff you could write about the Solomon Islands and use this map as evidence? Or do you have to use the "whole" map?
A series of ambiguous questions that basically boil down to "do you allow Nazi parties equal and fair access to electoral politics"
Oh and the questionnaire is filled out by "NGOs" in the country
